On 2023-01-01 15:54 -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 06:54:10PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream patch
>> Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/11766
>>
>> On 2023-01-01 18:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> > So far so good, and I have already prepared ncurses 6.4-1 in git. Now
>> > the bad news: it turned out that bracketed paste support in vim had
>> > (always?) been broken without anybody noticing it, because no terminal
>> > descriptions had included this feature. Only two days ago Bram
>> > Moolenaar fixed the problem in patch 9.0.1117[1].
>>
>> > I have backported this patch to the debian/sid branch in vim's git
>> > repository and can confirm that it fixes the problem, as long as
>> > ncurses-base is also upgraded to version 6.4-1.
>>
>> See the attached patch which I used as the last one in the series file.
>> If you want to reorder it so that it comes before the 9.0.1118 backport,
>> you need to edit the src/version.c hunks in both patches so that they
>> apply cleanly.
>
> Thanks for the info and patch. Do you happen to know if the patched Vim
> will work properly with the older ncurses (thinking of partial
> upgrades)?
It should work the same way as before.
> Or should ncurses Break older vim versions?
I suppose so. First we would need a fixed vim in testing, though.
Cheers,
Sven
